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Deinterlace and uprez–into what file format for Premiere?
I’m finally tackling a job of deinterlacing and uprezing an SD Quicktime movie (probably to 720p) to combine with other material in a new HD Premiere movie. I’m going to try using Compressor 3.5.
What’s the best codec/file format to ask Compressor to send this to? Is Prores 422 OK for further work in Premiere? Apple Intermediate Codec?
Thanks for any thoughts and experience,
RobertRobert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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I think ProRes is always a good choice for an editing codec.
Compressor is likely better at de-interlacing, but you could always keep it the same size and upscale the deinterlaced video in Premiere. No matter what, the clip probably will look pretty fuzzy next to the HD clips in your video, so you can always experiment with scaling it slightly and then filling up the frame underneath with an enlarged and blurred copy of the clip. It’s a technique often used on TV. I don’t know your particular use though, so just a thought.
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Thanks, Daniel.
I’ve been in a process during the last week to learn how to do this uprezing with Red Giant Instant HD plugin. The advantage over Compressor is I can keep my independent clips in Pr CC and continue editing and trimming.
This uprezed material will stand alone as an independent sequence in a longer program, so I won’t have the issue of contrast with adjacent HD shots. I’ll have crisp HD titles with relatively soft images, which will be fine.Robert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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